#HurricaneNate weakens to a tropical depression

Hurricane Nate made landfall twice in the United States overnight and was immediately downgraded to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression as it made its way along the southern region of the country.

Residents in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi were hit the hardest, and the second landfall occurred in Biloxi. According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm made its first landfall in Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Nearly 300,000 people in Mississippi alone were without electricity overnight into Sunday.